Komnena Nemanjić ( sr-cyr, Комнена Немањић; fl. 1208–1215) was the Duchess consort of Dimitri Progoni, the albanian '' megas archon'' of Kruja, and later

Gregory Kamonas Gregorios Kamonas ( 1215) was a Greek-Albanian Lord or Prince of Krujë (Arbanon) in ca. 1215. Demetrios Chomatenos (1216–1236) mentioned him as having the title of ''sebastos'', given to him by the emperor Alexios III Angelos after 1205, du ...

, the ''archon'' of

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. She was the daughter of Serbian King Stephen II Nemanjić (r. 1196–1228).REDAKCIJA ZA ISTORIJU CRNE GORE: ISTORIJA CRNE GORE, book 2, tom 1, Titograd, 1970, pp. 8-9.

Life

Komnena was born to King Stephen II and his wife Eudokia Angelina, and was thus a granddaughter of Emperor

Alexios III Angelos Alexios III Angelos ( gkm, Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός Ἄγγελος, Alexios Komnēnos Angelos; 1211), Latinized as Alexius III Angelus, was Byzantine Emperor from March 1195 to 17/18 July 1203. He reigned under the name Alexios Komnen ...

. She had three brothers: Stephen Radoslav (r. 1228–1233), Stephen Vladislav I (r. 1233–1243) and Predislav (the third

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as ''Saint Sava II'', after uncle

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). She married Dimitri in 1208, and a brief alliance was formed between Serbia and

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amidst conflicts with the

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. After Dimitrii died in 1215, the power was left to Komnena, who shortly afterwards married Greco-Albanian lord

. He assumed control over Kruja, strengthening relations with Serbia, which had been weakened after a Serbian assault on

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. She had a daughter with Gregorios who married

Golem of Kruja Golem was an Albanian nobleman who ruled the Principality of Arbanon, in its phase of semi-independency. He was the last ruler of Arbanon before its final annexation in the reemerging Byzantine Empire. His holdings included Krujë and probably O ...

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References

Sources

Skenderbeg, Makedonci i akademik Kaplan Burović
*The New Cambridge Medieval History: c. 1198-c. 1300
p. 786''The despotate of Epiros''
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